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Rh John Pickering (New York, 1819); "Ancient Mineralogy " (1834 ; new ed., 1859) ; " Lectures on the Greek Language and Literature " (1835) ; and an •' Historical Sketch of Columbia College " (1849), besides pamphlets and essays.

MOORE, Charles Leonard, poet, b. in Phila- delphia, Pa., 16 March, 1854. His father, Joseph, was for many years in the Pennsylvania legislature, and served as a major in the National army during the civil war. The son was educated at home and in Philadelphia high-school, and engaged in busi- ness. He was one of the managers of an unsuc- cessful expedition from Philadelphia to build a railroad between Bolivia and Brazil, and during its operations in 1878-'9 he was U. S. consul at San Antonio, Brazil. He is now (1888) connected with a drainage-company in Florida, but resides in Philadelphia. Mr. Moore has published " At- las " (Philadelphia, 1882) ; and " Poems '" (1883).

MOORE, Clara Jessup, author, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., IG Feb., 1824. Her father, Augustus E. Jessup, was the scientist of Maj. Stephen H. Long's Yellowstone expedition of 1816. Her parents were residents of Massachusetts. She was educated in New Haven, Conn., and on 27 Oct., 1842, married Bloomfield H. Moore, of Philadelphia. She has occupied herself with literary and philanthropic labors. During the war she established the woman's Pennsylvania branch of the U. S. sanitary commission, and the special relief committee for hospital work, and she projected and aided in founding the LTnion temporary home for children in Philadelphia. Several of her early stories were successful in competition for prizes, and she wrote at first under the pen-name of " Mrs. Clara Moreton." Mrs. Moore's husband died in 1878. and she is now (1888) a resident of London, England. She has obtained the legal right to write her surname, Bloorafield-Moore. Her works include " The Diamond Cross " (Philadelphia, 1857) ; " Mabel's Mission " ; " Master Jacky's Holiday " ; " Poems and Stories " (1875) ; " On Dangerous Ground," a novel, which was translated into French and Swedish (1876); "Sensible Etiquette "(1878); " Gondaline's Lesson " (1881) ; " Slander and Gossip " (printed privately, 1882) ; and " The Warden's Tale and Other Poems, New and Old " (London, 1883).

MOORE, David Albert, physician, b. in Lan- sing, Tompkins co., N. Y., 8 Nov., 1814. He studied medicine at Cazenovia and Albany, N. Y., and was given the honorary degree of M. D. by Syracuse university in 1877. Dr. Moore was president in 1869-'73 of the New York state life insurance com- pany of Syracuse, where he has resided for many years. He has written under the pen-name of Paul Wright, and published " A Panorama of Time" (New York. 1857). and "How She won Hira." a romance (Philadelphia, 1880).

MOORE, Dunlop, clergyman, b. in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, 25 July, 1830. He studied at Edinburgh and Belfast, and was gradu- ated in 1854. From 1855 till 1867 he was mission- ary of the Irish Presbyterian church to Gujurat, India, and from 1869 till 1874 to the Jews in Vien- na. Smce 1875 he has been pastor of the First Presbyterian church in New Brighton, Pa. He assisted in translating the Scriptures into the Gujurati language, wrote treatises on Mohamme- danism and Jainism, and edited a monthly periodi- cal, " The Gnyandipaka," in the same tongue. He translated, with Dr. Samuel T. Lowrie, Nagelsbach's " Isaiah " in the American Lange series (New York, 1878). and has contributed to various reviews.

MOORE, Edward Mott, surgeon, b. in Rahway, N. J., 15 July, 1814. He is the son of Lindley Murray Moore, a prominent member of the Society of Friends and an early leader in the anti-slavery movement, and Abigail Mott, a descendant of a Huguenot family that came to this country after the siege of Rochelle. His early years were spent in New York and its neighborhood, but the family removed to Rochester, N. Y.. in 1830, and that place has since been his home. He pursued his professional studies in New York and Philadel- phia, being graduated as a physician from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as resi- dent physician at Blockley hospital and the Frank- ford lunatic asylum for one year in each, and then began the practice of his profession at Rochester. In 1842 he was chosen professor of surgery in the medical school at Woodstock, Vt., and continued to give lectures during the sessions of the col- lege for eleven years. He occupied afterward the same chair in Berkshire, Mass., medical college and in Starling medical college of Columbus, Ohio. He filled the chair of surgery in the Buf- falo medical college for twenty-five years till 1883, when he resigned, after having been a lecturer for about forty years. He has been president of the Medical society of the state of New York, and was one of the founders of the Surgical associa- tion of the United States, and was the first successor of Dr. Gross in its presidency. He was president of the State board of health from its organization till 1886, and took a deep interest and exerted a strong influence in the constitution of the new body. He was a delegate to the International congress of physicians at Copenhagen in 1884, has been for many years a trustee of the University of Rochester, and is prominent in many movements of local interest. He has confined his professional writing to papers on certain subjects in regard to which he considered standard authorities incomplete or in the wrong, in each case aiming to contribute some new fact or thought to the existing store of knowledge, or advocating some new departure in medical practice, basing his action on original experiment and observation. These papers have been published in various medical journals and in the transactions of medical societies, but have never been collected in book-form. Among his discussions of original views and methods of treatment may be mentioned papers on fractures and dislocations of the clavicle ; on fractures of the radius, accompanied with dislocation of the ulna ; on fractures, during adolescence, at the upper end of the humerus : and a treatise on trans- fusion of blood based on original investigations. Shortly after graduation. Dr. Moore made at Philadelphia a series of important experiments on the heart's action, in connection with Dr. Pennock, of that city. Two years earlier the subject had been investigated in Dublin, but these were the first experiments of the kind on this continent, and in the following year the work done in Dublin and Philadelphia was carefully tested by a committee of the London medical society appointed for that purpose and making investigation under the most